Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better?
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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Daring Fireball review: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
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How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network
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youtube-dl's creator and initial maintainer explains the origins of the project
18 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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Veronica Mars and NTLM password hashes
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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Thoughts and observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 event
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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What working at Stripe has been like
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Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
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How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
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Project Gemini: Stripped back web // souped up Gopher internet protocol
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Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk
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2020 Bundles - An overview of bundle-based offerings from major tech companies
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When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
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Web history - Chapter 4: Search
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6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act
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Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
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Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA
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Solar energy and mechanical triggers power the Engage, a console at the cutting edge of computer engineering
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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The conscience of Silicon Valley
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Analysis of health misinformation on Facebook finds that it's receiving billions of views—about four times as many as content from leading health institutions—and only 16% has a warning label
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The graphing calculator story
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Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
11 votes -
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
10 votes -
An analysis of over 15,000 popular Google searches found that the first organic result is now usually almost halfway down the page, and requires scrolling multiple screen-lengths on mobile to reach
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
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The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
8 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
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Seeking truth in a time of misinformation
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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De-escalating social media conflict: Admitting mistakes
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GPT-3 writing creative fiction on its own
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Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook
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Apple and Facebook—a contrast of corporate strategies
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Moroccan journalist targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group’s tools
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Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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Appropriate technology
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Opportunities for watchOS 7
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The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
33 votes -
Anatomy of an internet shutdown
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The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
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Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
9 votes